Priority 1 Ministries

Help change the world through exciting, life-changing, cross-cultural mission trips for youth and adults, including retirees. Urban (NYC) and International (Dominican Republic, Honduras, Malawi, Nicaragua, Romania, Zambia) teams; Winter Outreach Teams (Honduras, Romania); and Teaching / Prayer teams (Romania, Zimbabwe). Affiliated with Brethren In Christ World Missions.

Our History

We have been serving the Lord in some kind of mission ministry since 1993. As early as 1995 we began doing various kinds of short-term urban and international outreach. Then, in September 2004, we met with a group of godly friends to seek advice and direction about founding a new ministry, to be called Priority One Ministries. Many of these advisors became our Executive Board.

Shortly after meeting with another advisor, we were asked to pray about starting an internship program to be based in the Bronx, which is the door that opened for ministry in NYC. After much prayer we moved ahead: in October (2004), Priority One Ministries became incorporated; and, in December 2004, Priority 1 became an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) non-profit ministry.

The only explanation for the immediate approval by the IRS is the Lord. In January 2005 Priority One sent out the first short-term mission team to Honduras, and in February 2005 began the first internship in the Bronx, NYC. The Lord Jesus has been growing the ministry ever since. All praise goes to Him!

Our Mission

Priority 1 Ministries seeks to disciple, prepare, and challenge born-again youth and adults through ministry opportunities: that will provide training, encourage them to cultivate a more intimate walk with the Lord, and enlarge their missionary vision; to serve the Lord in a missionary setting; and, to seek every available means of leading people of all ages to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Values

1. We believe that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired Word of God and the final authority for faith and practice.

2. We believe that the Scriptures reveal the triune God Whose person, nature, and character forever is God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the source and foundation of all that is. God has established order and relationships within creation.

3. We believe that God created man and woman in His image. Because human beings chose to disobey God, their nature became sinful, resulting in alienation from God, from one another, from themselves, and from the rest of creation.

4. We believe that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, came to earth to reveal the Father and provide God’s only plan of salvation for sinful humanity. New life in Christ is given to all who turn from evil through faith in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit enables the believer to make full surrender to the work of Christ and to walk in the fullness of the Spirit’s power.

5. We believe that the Holy Spirit works in the world, intercedes for the believer, and is present in the life of the church, gifting persons for witness and service. The church is God’s primary means for worship, fellowship, evangelism, and discipleship.

6. The final destiny of all things lies in God’s hands. We believe that the return of Christ in power and glory is certain and may occur at any time. God will judge righteously at the close of the age. All created things will be brought to their proper order in the eternal Kingdom.

What We Do

Priority 1 provides training and opportunities for Christ-followers to go into the world and share the hope of the gospel. We offer training and preparation, as well as communications and networking for short-term international mission trips (for already formed groups of both youth and adults who are already connected with a specific mission) to certain approved countries.

There are also NYC outreach team opportunities of various lengths, and summer internships. Participants have multiple opportunities to reach the lost and are challenged to follow Christ more passionately in their own Christian walk every day. There are also times of orientation and debriefing for NYC teams upon arrival and before departure.

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